You have often heard people say that if you are taking antibiotics don’t drink alcohol. Some people think that alcohol prevents antibiotics from functioning properly in the body, while some believe that it can have several side-effects. But is alcohol really safe with antibiotics? Let’s try to know about it in detail –
Genitourinary clinics Research
When Genitourinary clinic in London, conducted a survey of more than 300 people, it found that 81 percent of people believed that alcohol does not allow antibiotics to function properly, while according 71 percent of people it has side-effects.
In most antibiotic cases, none of these perceptions are true. At the same time, doctors anticipate that such perceptions make patient drop their medicine for the sake of drinking. In fact, when leaving the course of antibiotic in the middle, it increases the risk of developing a resistant towards it in the body. That is, antibiotic resistant develops because of which many types of antibiotic stop working on the body. The reality is that alcohol usually does not have any effect on the given antibiotics. But there are many exceptions to this.
When consuming alcohol with antibiotics, cephalosporin cefotitine during the digestion of alcohol in the body slows down breakdown and it increases the level of acetaldehyde in the body. It has many types of side effects such as vomiting, yellowing of the face, headache, obstruction of breath and pain in the chest.